Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes A.A.F. losses have been minuscule. "It is possible that the Schweinfurt mission in which we lost 60 of our bombers may prove to have been one of the decisive air actions of the war." The Schweinfurt plants produced over 50% of Germany's ball bearings. The Regensburg raid caused a loss in production of 500 ME-109s. Cost of that raid to the Eighth Bomber Command...
...worked with deadly, purposeful persistence. They had been told exactly what to aim at, reported that they hit the target again & again. For its part of the attacks, the Eighth put up the biggest force of heavies it had ever sent over the Channel (biggest previous force in one raid: 750 Fortresses and Liberators...
...Inner Target. From the Mediterranean, Jimmy Doolittle's Fifteenth U.S. Air Force sent planes "in force" to Innsbruck and Augsburg in southwest Germany. The Augsburg raid dramatized the enormous growth of Allied air power and air techniques: not so long ago (April 17, 1942) the R.A.F. could spare only twelve Lancasters for a costly, experimental daylight raid on Augsburg from Britain...
Interwoven in pulverizing succession came heavy raids, on Bremen (1,200 tons) by the Eighth, on Berlin (1,120 tons) and Frankfurt (2,250 tons) by the R.A.F. Before the Frankfurt raid, Canadian squadrons in a whip-smart feint slashed at nearby Mannheim, drawing the Luftwaffe into the skies. By the time the main attack on Frankfurt developed, the Luftwaffe realized its mistake, sent its harassed night fighters racing northward. They arrived too late. By then 800 R.A.F. planes had loosed their 2,250 tons of bombs in 35 minutes, gone home...
...raid of May loth ... I had a seat in the stalls, having arranged to spend that night on St. Paul's Cathedral. St. Paul's has already had two direct hits, but Wren's structure is standing up to it amazingly well (if you go back stage in the cathedral you notice with what extraordinary ingenuity and thoroughness-and solidity-the whole thing is put together). ... It was a night of a full moon which half the time was lost in fire clouds, and from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City...